I once almost deafened the whole trumpet section with a cymbal crash, does that count?

I'm too valuable to the trumpet players. My friend Jason (first trumper chair) once told me "You keep those cymbals on beat, 'cause if you go off, I go off. If I go off the rest of the band goes off."

none whatsoever lol although a friend of mine is giving me an old guitar of his to practise on

I once listened to an entire Tupac cd, at the request of a younger cousin, without smashing the cd player with a sledge hammer. It was a close thing though.
I consider that a very high accomplishment.

haha...and the drums have to keep up a beat or i smash them....i can't freakin believe that after 4 years some of them can't keep a steady beat on a bass drum...i mean cmon....

Blew out my brand new fender amp while playing in a benefit show



Edited by - parabolix on 4/28/2004 8:21:02 AM

kaegogi (sp?), I've gone through the same experience on the bus before.

Nice job, wolfy! Great to see a fellow brass player around here (albiet a trumpet... grumble grumble... Horns will rule the world one day!)

Did I say that aloud? I mean, eurh...

Anyway, was that on a student model trumpet or a professional trumpet? Apparantly professional instruments are much easier to play and get high notes on.

I made a "super"-high A once... actually, must have been a whole two or three times now!
(Ask the french horn(s) in your band if they can play super high A, and they'll probably laugh at you.)

Oh, and hear! hear! to funny percussionists! Do they leave the music all over the back of the bandroom like they do in my school, and like I do with the clothes in my room? (Means that every time the teacher switches songs, they're scrambling trying to find the right music... that is if they bother reading it)

Eh_Steve: That sounds like a march. If it is, then blek. I dislike marches. They cater to 2 instruments: Trumpets and flutes. Everybody else is stuck with one rhythm for the entire song. (I got one rhythm and two notes!)


Anyway, I don't have experience playing trumpet, but I have the title of "t3h l33t fr3nch h0rn" at my school... no, not really. But I am 'technically' first chair, even above the Gr. 12 player, but that is if we had ranks like that.
I can make high E regularly, high F most of the time, high G moodily, and high A a whole 3 times to count!

/me gets slapped for bragging too much.
Okay, I go now...

Don't worry, Wolfy. Soon you'll have some inspiring words from "Uncie Taw", who will tell you the story of how he tested Bach trumpets for a 90 year-old German trumpet maker in a small alpine village for several years .

Edited by - esquilax on 4/27/2004 4:55:33 PM

lol well yeah whasp the percussionists do do that

and it is a student model trumpet.

and btw whasp do u mind trying to make a staff and show me cause i know lots of "super" high As

i don understando. on teh guitar you can go up to like 3 lines above the top line that always come out, or in other words, the highest you *normally* go is the E above the C that is an octave higher than middle C. and you go as low as the E below the C that is an octave lower than middle C.

that is under standard tuning of course.

Remember that horns and trumpets are in different keys, and as such an A on a horn is different from an A on a trumpet.
<pre><font size=1 face=Courier>The following is in treble clef: (same as trumpet)
.................-C-...
................B....
..............-A-... <-"super" high A
.............G......
------------F-------
...........E......
---------D-------
........C...... <- High C
-------B-------
......A........
-----G--------
....F......... <- Concert B flat
---E---------
..D............
.-C-......... <-middle C
</font></pre>

Oh, I can go down pretty low, too. I can make "super low" C. Well into the range of trombones and euphoniums and tubas.

Kimk: Well, guitars aren't brass instruments. In brass instruments, you have to 'buzz' the mouthpiece with, well, your mouth. After a while, the tension forced onto your lips is enough to make them extremely sore. High and low notes are harder to play, as well. (Higher= lots of tension, and lower= hard to hit)

Edited by - Whasp Commander on 4/27/2004 9:10:38 PM

yeah thanks

my lip was soooo numb from doing that yet i was able to keep doing it all day today

ho ho ho very amusing, Esquilame, as a natter of fact I can't play any brass instruments at all.

although i did once find this Magic Flute...

I'm sure you did, Tawakarnie. Did you find the "Magic Flute" at the theatre?

Didn't you like my jest? I guess I'll have to try harder then; scary thought, eh?

Edited by - esquilax on 4/28/2004 3:53:35 AM